The Disordered Cosmos

A Journey into Dark Matter, Spacetime, and Dreams Deferred

hardcover, 288 pages

Published March 9, 2021 by Bold Type Books.

ISBN:
978-1-5417-2470-9
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From a star theoretical physicist, a journey into the world of particle physics and the cosmos — and a call for a more just practice of science.

In The Disordered Cosmos, Dr. Chanda Prescod-Weinstein shares her love for physics, from the Standard Model of Particle Physics and what lies beyond it, to the physics of melanin in skin, to the latest theories of dark matter — all with a new spin informed by history, politics, and the wisdom of Star Trek.

One of the leading physicists of her generation, Dr. Chanda Prescod-Weinstein is also one of fewer than one hundred Black American women to earn a PhD from a department of physics. Her vision of the cosmos is vibrant, buoyantly non-traditional, and grounded in Black feminist traditions.

Prescod-Weinstein urges us to recognize how science, like most fields, is rife with racism, sexism, and other dehumanizing systems. She lays out a …

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the need for perspective

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Searing essays on the problems of physics at the edges of our understanding of the universe, and the problems of physicists and academia struggling to understand its bizarre-from-fresh-perspective and harmful white colonial subjectivity. Some of these essays have stronger bonds between these elements, while others feel importantly wedged in here with necessary perspective but less thematically linked, like a good blog.